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Robert Louis Stevenson did not witness the storm and its aftermath at Apia but after his December 1889 arrival to Samoa, he wrote about the event. [3] The Second Samoan Civil War , involving Germany, the United States, and Britain, eventually resulted in the Tripartite Convention of 1899 , which partitioned the Samoan Islands into American ...
Amerika Samoa: A History of American Samoa and Its United States Naval Administration (United States Naval Institute, 1960). Huebner, Thorn. "Vernacular literacy, English as a language of wider communication, and language shift in American Samoa." Journal of Multilingual & Multicultural Development 7.5 (1986): 393–411. Kennedy, Paul.
American Samoa [c] is an unincorporated territory of the United States located in the Polynesia region of the South Pacific Ocean.Centered on , it is 40 miles (64 km) southeast of the island country of Samoa, east of the International Date Line and the Wallis and Futuna Islands, west of the Cook Islands, north of Tonga, and some 310 miles (500 km) south of Tokelau
The Second Samoan Civil War was a conflict that reached a head in 1898 when Germany, the United Kingdom, and the United States were locked in dispute over who should have control over the Samoan island chain, located in the South Pacific Ocean.
The Second Samoan Civil War reached a head in 1898 when Germany, Great Britain and the United States disputed over who should control the Samoan Islands. The Battle of Apia occurred in March 1899. Samoan forces loyal to Prince Tanu were besieged by a larger force of Samoan rebels loyal to powerful chief Mata'afa Iosefo. Supporting Prince Tanu ...
Samoan Islands; Samoa in the west and American Samoa in the east.. The political union of Samoa (an independent state previously known as Western Samoa) and American Samoa (a US territory also known as Eastern Samoa), both of which are part of the Samoan Islands, has been proposed ever since their current status was established in the first half of the 20th century under the Tripartite ...
Though many Americans think of a vacation in a tropical paradise when imagining Hawaii, how the 50th state came to be a part of the U.S. is actually a much darker story, generations in the making.
American Samoa was acquired by the United States in 1900 after the end of the Second Samoan Civil War. [5] The United States purchased the U.S. Virgin Islands from Denmark in 1917. [6] Puerto Rico and Guam remain territories, and the Philippines became independent in 1946, after being a major theater of World War II.